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“…I met a very favourable reception from Lady Washington-I spent an entire day with her-She is a very sensible Lady, rather elderly, has four Grand-Children in her house one little Boy and three girls-She pressed me a good deal to stay at her…


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An unpublished paper about Martha Washington in the American Revolution, by Mary Thompson.…

An unpublished manuscript collecting qutoes about Martha Washington from a wide variety of period sources, by Mary Thompson, Mount Vernon's MW…

“…Mrs. Washington, the Genl’s Lady is everything that is benevolent & good – I honor her as a second mother & receive from her all those attentions which I should look for from her who bore…

A biography of George Washington, written by his close friend and military aide, this work offers a glimpse of Washington's life, from his birth in 1732 until his assumption of the presidency in 1789. It assembles manuscripts from three separate…